"La torta"

Translation: The cake

[pulce.flo]

it is not: "la tortà"
the correct pronunciation is on the "o": la toorta

[Jeanette525]

So is it cake or pie?

[MayAstrid]

If you search images of torta in google, you have cakes, but I prefer pie...

[sebifire24]

pie is more "crostata"

[benton.1]

"Crostata" was listed as a "tart", which is kind of like an opened faced pie.

[benton.1]

My dictionary translates both "cake" and "pie" as "torta".

[lorenagay]

La TORta. Not la torTA. Also, no real word for pie in Italy...they may call them other things, but they don't make pie, as such, there.

[susan0408]

Ha ha ha☺ I am Hungarian and torta is torta in Hungarian. It is the same.

[Superuncia]

Turkish has the same word too. "Turta" means pie in there.

[Winter_Relapse]

she says it so...sassily.

[MartaOnMars]

I was wondering the same but I checked the pronunciation and, as Pulce said, the stress falls on the first syllable.

[AzulS1373]

Yo, la Mexico-Americana, quiero mi torta de jamón. :D

[Sebby_Pal]

in Australia there is a shop called latorta which sells wedding cakes

[animalover12345]

Words like "la" and "il" come before masculine and feminine nouns, but what about nouns that aren't masculine or feminine?

[BrunoZoldan]

In Italian and in the Romance languages there is only two gender, the greatest part of the ancient Latin neuter has got masculine (ending -o) and the other one are become feminine (they take the ending-a).
The English don't have the genders, they are disntinguished only in the third singular persons by the personel pronouns and by the possesive adjectives from they derived.

[mizinamo]

All nouns in Italian are either masculine or feminine. There is no neuter gender for nouns (like in Latin) any more.

[CiaoTeo]

You do a lot of languages!!!! Nice

[AntonellaP654393]

Torta in spanish is torta

[Amina_sub]

In libya we say Torta too :o I didn't thought for a second that it's an italian word omg!

[kaitlyn1213]

Hi everyone!

I am new to Italian and would like to go to Italy with my family.
But I feel I have to know the language in order to go. I check out the comments for the questions every day to look for help with the Italian language.

It would mean SO much if you guys could post some passages to help me out.

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Have a great day!

[deactivated user]

Would "The tart" be acceptable?

[gustavo.ca83]

Is it cake or pie?

[leonbartolo]

both

[Gabriela2580]

Cake

[IyaMiranda98]

In the Philippines, there is a dish called "tortang talong" (fried eggplant) but seeing this word, it might actually mean "eggplant cake". Quite surprised how some Italian words influenced Filipino language.

[HajjDeJesu]

in Philippines, 'torta' sorts to be an Omellet. hahahaha.
or anything you mixed with scramble egg.

[Taejsha]

Just cake :)

[SomethingSomethn]

I came here to learn Italian not to be hungry

[Emily86062]

I can't roll my r's in general. Any suggestions as to how to get round this?

[Elly52]

It's nice

[H.LC]

i wrote 'the cake' and i got wrong